“If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.”

“I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.”

“We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished. We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful.Yet we still know that we can love deeply.”

“I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.”

“Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.”

“I jumped into a crowd full of "u"s they turned into underscores. Hit the pavement hard. visualization words”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”